How many copies has The Witness sold?

indielist estimates The Witness has sold between 1,329,300 and 3,101,700 units (median 2,215,500), derived from its 21,100 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed The Witness?

The Witness was developed by Thekla, Inc. and published by Thekla, Inc..

Who published The Witness?

The Witness was published by Thekla, Inc., developed by Thekla, Inc.. See Thekla, Inc.'s full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was The Witness released?

The Witness was released in 2016.

How many reviews does The Witness have on Steam?

The Witness has 21,100 Steam reviews, of which 84% are positive.

Is The Witness worth playing?

Steam players rate The Witness 84% positive across 21,100 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

The Witness

Jan 26, 2016 Adventure $39.99

Developer Thekla, Inc. Publisher Thekla, Inc.

Profile updated May 2026

The Witness is an adventure game released in 2016. It has received 16,628 reviews on Steam. The developer and publisher are not yet imported.

The Witness is a 2016 Adventure game developed by Thekla, Inc. and published by Thekla, Inc.. On Steam it has gathered 21,100 player reviews, 84% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $40. The pairing of developer Thekla, Inc. with publisher Thekla, Inc. is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 1.3 million to 3.1 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, The Witness can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

21,100

Positive

84%

Steam appid

210970

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

255

Historical snapshot · 2026-05-24 19:20 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

1.3M to 3.1M

units (median: 2.2M)

≈ $30.4M to $70.8M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

1.3M median 3.1M

+ How is this calculated?

21,100 reviews × NB(105) = 2,215,500 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2016	+30
price_$40	+15
positive_84%	0
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	105

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for The Witness at roughly 1.3 million to 3.1 million copies, with a median around 2.2 million, derived from its 21,100 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $50.6M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

54 observed days · window low $7.99

Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $7.99 to $39.99. The tracked-window low was $7.99 on 2026-06-03.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has The Witness sold?: indielist estimates The Witness has sold between 1,329,300 and 3,101,700 units (median 2,215,500), derived from its 21,100 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed The Witness?: The Witness was developed by Thekla, Inc. and published by Thekla, Inc..
Who published The Witness?: The Witness was published by Thekla, Inc., developed by Thekla, Inc.. See Thekla, Inc.'s full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was The Witness released?: The Witness was released in 2016.
How many reviews does The Witness have on Steam?: The Witness has 21,100 Steam reviews, of which 84% are positive.
Is The Witness worth playing?: Steam players rate The Witness 84% positive across 21,100 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like The Witness can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as GRIS, Firewatch, ABZU, Call of the Sea, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Thekla, Inc.'s other releases and Thekla, Inc.'s wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Witness sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same The Witness page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.